New Delhi (SunstarTV Bureau): Twitter platform has suspended over 550 accounts on Wednesday in connection with the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on the 72nd Republic Day.
“We have taken strong enforcement action to protect the conversation on the service from attempts to incite violence, abuse, and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harm by blocking certain terms that violate our rules for trends,” one Twitter’s spokesperson confessed.
“Using a combination of technology and human review, Twitter worked at scale and took action on hundreds of accounts and Tweets that have been violation of the Twitter Rules, and suspended more than 550 accounts engaged in spam and platform manipulation,” again the spokesperson added.
According to Twitter’s terms and conditions it had applied labels to tweets that were found to be in violating of synthetic and manipulated media policy.
Notably, on Republic Day tractor rally led by the farmers against the Centre’s three new farm laws, had took a massive violence where several public and private properties were damaged and over 300 police personnel were injured. However, one farmer also died during the clash.
